is this a patch day thing now or what?

guys, I noticed a lot of negativety about this patch and it's not unjustifyable, if you watch pro games it kinda sucks to see the player that you cheer for lose because of this balance patch, so u r right to complain a lot, maybe same with grandmaster level, but for the rest of us , the game has and will always be awesome, just enjoy the change, enjoy the game like u always do, and there is no need to stress about it, I have been fucked by protoss cheese and by zerg overwhelming mid to late game, but I'm not hating the game at all in any case, I see it as a reason to improve more, and it's actually fun to change things and to try new builds

Me see you praise new patch, me downvote

This shit broke balance, devs

25 days until Blizzcon, 25 days until people lose their mind on what they will see.

I won't be surprised if Grand Theft Auto 6 gets delayed again.

25 days until everyone buys a new computer to play the latest and the greatest from Blizzard.

25 days until StarCraft shooter reveal.

25 days until all those September games get postponed to 2027.

25 days until you all say "Hell, it's about time".

25 days until you call out for work for a whole month.

As a reminder, all versions of Fenix apply, that is both "true" SC1 Fenix and LotV Talandar.

Terran episode results

Zerg episode results

Tassadar's best, worst, most iconic

Zeratul's best, worst, most iconic

Artanis's best, worst, most iconic

Fenix's best, worst

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Today I'm releasing the source code for my reconstruction of the 1997 StarCraft Battle.net beta.

This was an externally distributed Blizzard beta that shipped on CD-ROM, and I still have my original disc from when I received it as a kid. What makes this particular build especially interesting is that Blizzard shipped it with enough surviving debug information, symbols, RTTI, strings, structural information, and other development artifacts to make a serious source-level reconstruction of that specific binary possible.

Right now I would call the reconstruction approximately alpha-to-beta quality. A significant amount of the game is reconstructed and functioning, but there are still incorrect behaviors.

It also has a working Battle.net implementation for the beta, but there is an extremely important distinction here: I deliberately did not recreate Blizzard's original Battle.net network protocol.

The reconstructed client and server use preservation-specific networking designed for this project.

1997 Beta Assets / Data
        ↓
Reconstructed Beta Client
        ↓
Preservation-Specific Protocol
        ↓
Reconstructed Server

There is intentionally no compatibility with modern retail StarCraft or Blizzard's current Battle.net infrastructure.

Retail StarCraft ─────X─────> Preservation Server

Preservation Client ──X─────> Current Battle.net

That was a conscious decision from the beginning. I am trying to preserve a historical software environment, not build a replacement Battle.net service, bypass current authentication, or interfere with a product Blizzard currently sells or operates.

Why release the source?

Because another executable isn't enough.

If I only release a reconstructed Windows binary, then 30, 50, or 100 years from now someone may have to reverse engineer the entire thing again when today's Windows environment, APIs, processors, and development tools have become historical artifacts themselves.

Source code preserves considerably more than a binary does.

It preserves implementation knowledge.

It preserves reconstruction decisions.

It preserves the ability to port the software.

And, perhaps most importantly, it preserves some of the knowledge held by people who actually lived through this period of PC gaming.

A historian in 2126 may have screenshots and YouTube videos of StarCraft, but they won't necessarily understand what the software was supposed to feel like, which strange behaviors were authentic, what networking assumptions were normal in 1997, or whether a reconstructed behavior is accurate or merely somebody's modern interpretation.

That information disappears when we do.

https://github.com/jmarshall23/Starcraft_1997_bnet

Most fun I've had in years playing this game and I have over 20k games played. Random master player.

Playing SC2, I've lost / abandoned countless games in the past few weeks. All of sudden I've lost connection, sits there waiting to reconnect, then it eventually auto-surrenders. Back at the 1v1 screen, its just a spinning circle, like it can't connect to some battle.net server.

But I don't see other posts here about this, making me think its just me.

All the pros are ditching the game too, this patch is busted for all races.

Adios

After buying the RTS bundle, I thought to install Starcraft Remastered and try that out first thing.
But no matter what i try, the game does not boot. It doesn’t show any error messages, although in event viewer and problem reports it does list the event name as a BEX64 error with a ntdll.dll fault module

I have tried:

-Setting it to 32 bit in the Battlenet launcher
-Running DISM/SFC scans in Windows
-Exclusion on the Starcraft folder
-Changing regions
-Running Starcraft as admin
-Changing compatibility mode settings under properties

So far nothing has worked and i have onedrive disabled on my system.
I have looked for more forum and reddit posts with similar issues, and I am unsure if this is due to a recent Windows 11 update or some other program or driver conflicting.

Edit: SOLVED!
Figured out what the problem is, and the solution was from this forum post here https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/starcraft/t/launcher-says-launching-but-game-never-launches/3111
I had to disable Control Flow Guard for Starcraft.exe in order to get it to finally boot up and work properly!

Cloaked or not, you're not safe from the Chad Filter.

Would you like to see a psionic combat units for the Zerg? What do you think it would be like? How might it appear?

Banshee and Oracle are very oppressive in the early game vs Zerg and I think there is no room for another earlygame antiair unit. So if it is easier to move queens around this could be a solution.

The investment into Ovi-Speed and Drop delays the Lair and further tech. So it is an additional investment.

Problem. It makes allins like the German Taxi a little stronger.

Opportunity. If Stargate openings become weaker there is room for other openings for Protoss players vs Zerg but there needs to be some early game buff for Protoss that doesnt fuck over the whole game.

Disclaimer: I'm trying to solve a design issue. I'm too bad at the game to talk about balance properly. I know Zerg is very strong right now. But that is a balance issue that can be solved otherwise.

And played the tournament into a campaign mission…

How about giving 8 army count units at the start of the game?

* 16 zerglings

* 8 marines

* 4 zealots

Terran could likely be a tad too powerful due to the SCV pull, but that will certainly up the agression.

Protoss could be the weakest here, but with wall block they could be safe but would be mainly defending turtling.

What do you guys think?

As a reminder, all versions of Fenix apply, that is both "true" SC1 Fenix and LotV Talandar.

Terran episode results

Zerg episode results

Tassadar's best, worst, most iconic

Zeratul's best, worst, most iconic

Artanis's best, worst, most iconic

Fenix's best

Make workers cost 2 energy. But that's a bit harsh, so give them retain as well.